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By The Real McCoy | March 25, 2008
Oh, Davidson. You’re like the beautiful girl I have a crush on that just wants to be “friends.” You broke my bracket heart but I still can’t get enough of you. Can you continue to wear that glass slipper proudly or will you turn into a pumpkin against the cheese heads of Wisconsin? Although sophomore stud Stephen Curry shoots threes like they’re lay-ups, Wisconsin just shut down the best player in college basketball in Michael Beasley so I have a feeling they’ll be able to cool Curry’s jets and shatter Cinderella’s slipper.
Kansas and Villanova should provide more scoring than a Las Vegas happy hour. Kansas’s starting five could double as the school’s track & field team. They run like cheetahs on steroids and jump higher than kangaroos on trampolines. Villanova guards Scottie Reynolds and Corey Fisher match up well with Kansas’s backcourt but this game will be decided under the boards and that’s why Kansas will advance to the Elite Eight.
North Carolina has been beating teams so severely that Hallmark is considering producing more condolence cards. Washington State just might be returning those to sender as they won’t be pushed around by Psycho T and the boys in blue. The Cougars are actually one of the few teams in the tourney that match-up well against the Tar Heels. I see this game going down to the final few minutes with Carolina escaping in their first true test.
Stanford’s miracle shot against Marquette defied the laws of physics. How did that ball go in again? I swear the hands of God came down and pushed it through the hoop. But this isn’t about turning water into wine, this is about basketball. The Lopez twins throw wild block parties under the basket and I don’t think Texas has enough artillery to shut them down. I see Stanford surviving another last second thriller.
Xavier versus West Virginia is the ultimate “oil and vinegar” match-up. Xavier is a team that prides themselves on defense and West Virginia thinks they can score on anyone anytime anywhere. As we all know – defense wins championships. I’m giving the nod to Xavier in a hard-nosed down-to-the-wire slugfest.
The Louisville versus Tennessee game gets me about as excited as a six-hour lecture on mahogany. Be sure to bring your Red Bull as you watch Rick Pitino and Bruce Pearl yell at their team for bad shots and turnovers. Tennessee’s leading scorer Chris Lofton might not play due to injury. That would be like an airline pilot asking a passenger to land the plane. It has “disaster” written all over it. If Lofton doesn’t play Louisville easily dances to the Elite 8. If he plays I see this game being decided by three points or less with a slight edge to Tennessee.
I can’t remember a more disrespected one-loss team than Memphis. Everyone still considers them a “Flavor of the Month.” I’m in a fifty-person pool and only two people have them winning the whole thing. How does that happen? I don’t think they’re going to beat Michigan State – I think they’re going crush them, embarrass them, humiliate them, spank them, annihilate them, and, well, you get the idea.
I would love Western Kentucky to pull off the upset against UCLA. I’m sick of the zebra’s whistles continuously piggybacking the Bruins from victory to victory. The Hilltoppers couldn’t have asked for a better chance than this: UCLA’s starters Mbah a Moute has a severely sprained left ankle and Josh Shipp has strep throat so this game is theirs for the taking. Unfortunately, I have to bite my tongue, clear my throat, swallow my pride, and say that I still think the Bruins will pull off the victory. Let’s at least hope that the refs have no say in the outcome.
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